Safety & Environmental Engineer

SAFETY & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (PRODUCT SAFETY) - 6 MONTHS - CONTRACT

Remote working with 2 days a fortnigh on site in Bristol OR Barrow In Furness Cumbria

Working as part of an Integrated Development Team, established to develop and deliver submarine systems / capability.

As a Product Safety Engineer you will assist System Engineers in influencing submarine systems and capability development. You will develop an understanding of how submarine systems work and work together and ensure that the system of system interactions considers Product Safety appropriately.

The role will be involved in all aspects of safety management and safety case delivery.  This includes safety requirements capture and management, hazard identification and analysis, hazard data management, application of the ALARP principle, creation/maintenance of safety documentation and continuous improvement of the safety management system.  The role provides a real opportunity to gain a broad overview of a complex system (i.e. submarine).

Typical duties include (but are not limited to):

• Specifically focusing on ensuring that Product Safety tasking and activities are completed across multiple systems in support of project milestones through all stages of Engineering Life Cycle Management
• Supporting Hazard Identification and Analysis studies
• Assisting with or generating safety reports
• Ensuring the Integrated Development Team operates within the project Safety Management System
• Liaising with other Integrated Development Teams and the Whole Boat Safety Team

PROVEN ABILITY – KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS

• An understanding of 'Safety and Systems Engineering' and of the 'Engineering Life Cycle Management'
• Experience working and delivering tasks as part of team, but also capable of working and delivering tasks unsupervised
• Practical experience as a Product Safety Engineer in the maritime defence sector is preferable, although experience in other sectors will be considered
• The ability to be agile in working practices and customer expectations
• Self-motivated, with good verbal and written communication skills